How to Use brush fire in a Sentence

brush fire

noun

• The surrounding hills were blackened, the aftermath of brush fires started by wayward rockets.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
• The smell of smoke from a brush fire in the pasture across the way.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2018
• In 2005, a small brush fire was traced back to a hot vent from the fire.
  — Matthew Brown and Colleen Slevin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• Bonnie, a blind girl trapped in a brush fire near the beach?
  — Sally Holmes, Marie Claire, 30 July 2018
• Be aware of a road closure due to a brush fire burning in the riverbed in @CityofSantee.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• The Cedar Basin Fire is a brush fire burning about 14 miles east of Wikieup.
  — Alta Spells and Laura James, CNN, 11 July 2021
• There was also a brush fire on the island of Kea, near Athens.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2024
• In this case, the device sparked a fast-moving brush fire.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• In October, the state saw over 100 brush fires in one week.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
• Crews are at the scene of a brush fire near a ranch in the east foothills of San Jose on Monday morning.
  — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
• The Watch Fire started on July 10 as a small brush fire.
  — Annie Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2024
• The brush fire was reported in a riverbed near the Plaza Bonita mall.
  — Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2018
• Last year, a brush fire broke out below the Top of the World neighborhood and tore through 175 acres.
  — Daily Pilot, 17 July 2019
• Last year, a brush fire forced a group to evacuate from Elysian Park.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2024
• Late on the night of Oct. 7, word began to spread among Spurs players and coaches like a brush fire.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 June 2019
• The brush fire was in a sloping field along Lahainaluna Road.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The dry conditions are contributing to the brush fires as well.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• The dry, windy weather recently has increased the risk of brush fires.
  — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The West fire was the largest of three brush fires that broke out during a sweltering heat wave Friday.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• My right nipple is ablaze in a brush fire of discomfort.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Fire crews in the air and on the ground attacked a brush fire in Santee on Wednesday afternoon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2020
• Here's the paragraph: Maui isn’t the only island on Hawaii dealing with brush fires.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• Cleveland does have brush fires – a fire that involves a low-growing plant.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• By most accounts, the response to the brush fire that scorched hundreds of acres near the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday was a job well done.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• There was also a small brush fire near the wreckage, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The winds are leading to a high brush fire potential across the region, largely in part due to the direction of the wind.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• As flooding hit the Big Island, winds fanned brush fires that had broken out in dry areas of Maui and Oahu.
  — Fox News, 26 Aug. 2018
• The New York region is unlikely to ever have as many brush fires as out West.
  — Michael S. Schmidt Hilary Howard Nicholas Nehamas Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2024
• That day, a brush fire was burning near the high school and had caused the school to lose power in the afternoon, but the power came on before the 6 p.m. game.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• Officers in Azusa, California have arrested a man suspected of arson following a brush fire that broke out in Pioneer Park.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025